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    Take a Peek at Life Inside the American Detention Centers Amid a Pandemic

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    After devastating the US major cities, the largest hotbeds of infections now are all inside prisons. Screenlifer explores how the pandemic has exacerbated the longstanding problem with the US mass incarceration system, where privatization and perverse financial incentives are costing human lives as the outbreak of the virus and those infected continues to rise.

    As the warnings to prevent a humanitarian disaster inside the immigration detention facilities are ignored by ICE, the medically vulnerable to COVID-19 who are stuck behind the bars are afraid that this could be their death sentence.

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    Natia Gvazava

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